Definition of "goffered" [goffered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of goffer. (verb)

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• "Edges may be goffered, that is, decorated with incised or burnt lines, though the result, like tattooing, is more curious than ornamental."
• "Round her waist they made the loveliest belt of mingled blue and yellow, and all over the upper part of her night-gown, in and out among the pretty white fills which Dorcas herself "goffered," so nicely, they made themselves into fantastic trimmings of every shape and kind; bows, rosettes – I cannot tell you what they did not imitate."
• "Round her waist they made the loveliest belt of mingled blue and yellow, and all over the upper part of her night-gown, in and out among the pretty white frills which Dorcas herself "goffered," so nicely, they made themselves into fantastic trimmings of every shape and kind; bows, rosettes -- I cannot tell you what they did not imitate."